THE CURE - ''ALONE'' : BRITISH BAND HONOURS

LONDON : A melancholic resurrection : The Cure release '' Alone, '' first song in 16 years.

The British band The Cure released their first new music in 16 years last Thursday, the single  Alone and confirmed their long awaited album would come on November 1.

The melancholic song, almost seven minutes long, is the first track from Songs of a Lost World, The Cure's 14th studio album. Their last, 4 : 13 Dream, was released in 2008. The band had previewed songs from the new album during their Shows Of A Lost World tour, opening shows with Alone.

'' It's the track that unlocked the record : as soon as we had that piece of music recorded I knew it was the opening song, and I felt the whole album come into focus,'' frontman Robert Smith said in a statement.

'' I had been struggling to find the right opening line for the right opening song for a while,  working with a simple idea of being alone',  always in the back of my mind this nagging feeling that I already knew what the opening line should be.''

Britain's NME music publication called the song  '' epic and emotional '' while the Guardian newspaper described it as '' majestically wreathed in misery and despair'', giving it four out of five stars.

The Cure, who made their debut in the late 1970s and are known for their post punk as well as darker melancholic tracks, had long teased a new album, with Smith revealing the Songs of a Lost World record title in 2022. [ Reuters ]